First Majestic Silver’s President and CEO, Keith Neumeyer commented at the Denver Gold Show in Colorado and the Hard Asset Conference in Las Vegas this week that with the shares now trading at close to three year lows that “the fundamentals of our business are not being recognised.” A comment that is broadly fair and applicable to many minin g companies. He further commented that, “Severe market corrections are common in bull markets, however, the recent world wide sell off in commodities and mining shares appears over done in management’s opinion”.

“No one can predict bottoms in the market; however management remains very optimistic and encouraged by the successes occurring within the company and strongly feel the recent sell off in the company’s shares is unwarranted.  

Two major expansion projects are presently underway at the San Martin Silver mine and the La Encantada Silver mine which are undergoing significant facelifts. Construction has been ongoing since June at both operations and will result in much higher levels of silver production for 2009.

Also, 23 drill rigs are active within the company’s four core projects which represents one of the largest drill programs underway in Mexico. As a result of this aggressive program, new NI 43-101 resource estimates will be released on each project by year end. Furthermore, by achieving these important milestones, the company is in a position to commence scaling back its drill program in order to conserve capital.

Neumeyer also stated that, “Management remains very committed to meeting and maintaining the growth of the business through continued expansion of production and resource development which we are confident will result in bringing true value.”

The company says it is “well capitalised and thus has sufficient funds to meet its targets for 2008 and 2009. Even though an unusually wet rainy season in Mexico may impact the third quarter somewhat in production levels this has little or no impact on the long term growth focus of the company. Also, due to present market conditions, management is very aware of the necessity to conserve cash and has implemented cost savings programs internally in order to cut costs where possible.